Being able to open the "set time zone" window from the "set time" dialog of the installer is surprising.

[Daniel Burrows]

If you try to set the time from the graphical installer, the resulting dialog contains a button to set the time zone. This is rather surprising, since you reach this dialog from a wizard page that lets you set the time zone. Worse, the two time zone dialogs seem to do different things.

This could be explained if "Set time..." in the installer actually pops up a configuration program/applet for the running system (i.e., the live CD)? Maybe you could add some arguments to it to disable the "set time zone" button?

  Precise steps to reproduce:
(1) Start the Dapper installer off the live CD and proceed to the time configuration page.
(2) Click "Set Time...".
(3) Click "Select Time Zone...". Now you have two time zone dialogs!
(4) Choose a time zone in the second dialog. The current system date/time (i.e., the date/time of the Live CD) will change to the selected date and time, but the time zone and date/time displayed in the installer will remain unchanged.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I'm wondering if the "set time" button is actually worth the hassle ...

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

ubiquity (1.3.7) feisty; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Remove "Set Time..." button, which is far more trouble than it's worth
    (LP: #49412, #52716, #52717, #73907, #76564). You can adjust the time
    after installation.
  * Fix a silly typo while setting up the resize progress bar (LP: #77523).
  * Don't say "beta version" in the alpha intro message.
  * Move language list box to the left-hand side of its page rather than the
    bottom, on the basis that you have to choose a language before you can
    read the text.
  * Switch to glade-3 (those with branches that modify ubiquity.glade, take
    note).
  * Add special cases to restore correct handling of Chinese and Portuguese
    language codes.
  * If /cdrom/.disk/release_notes_url is present, display a link to the
    release notes on the language page. See doc/README for the format
    (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubiquity-release-notes).
  * Remove no-longer-canonical /distros from Launchpad URLs.
  * Sync up hostname handling with netcfg; it now allows hostnames between 2
    and 63 characters in length, forbids them starting or ending with a
    hyphen, and interprets hostnames containing dots as hostname.domain and
    adjusts /etc/hosts accordingly (LP: #52501, #72909).

  [ Jonathan Riddell ]
  * Port KDE frontend to Qt 4

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 3 Jan 2007 13:59:25 +0000